You said — “1) Lots of that money stays right here in the U.S. when the line workers and hundreds of connected small businesses/vendors/wage earners get paid/sell products and services.”
Not for long with a lot wanting to kill the auto industry... LOL... But, there will always be those fast food places to work... We’re converting to a “service industry” doncha know... LOL...
[Send all the rest of the money elsewhere... :-) ... ]
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And then — 2) Ridiculous. Unless you want to ban the internal combustion engine, limiting who we buy oil from will simply cause a shift in the market supply until it all evens out again and the exact same amount of money will be going to the “Arabs”.
Yep, we’ll keep on funding the Communist Chinese, funding the foreign entities, funding the terrorists and soon — we’ll all be “serving tables” with the Arabs and Chinese and foreigners *eating luxuriously* at the tables... I guess you’re going to be doing the dishes... right?
LOL...
What is your point, and what is with all the “LOL”s?
You cannot have it both ways. Either we ban the IC engine or we buy foreign oil. Not to mention that if we DID get every single car off the road tomorrow we would STILL be importing about 40% of what we do now. Cars are not the only things we use petroleum for.